US Patent Issued to SUTERRA on Sept. 29 for "Av3 mutant polypeptides for pest control" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,271, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to SUTERRA LLC (Bend, Ore.).

"Av3 mutant polypeptides for pest control" was invented by Lin Bao (Portage, Mich.), Breck Davis (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Kyle Douglas Schneider (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "New insecticidal peptides, polypeptides, proteins, and nucleotides; their expression in culture and plants; methods of producing the peptides, polypeptides, proteins, and nucleotides; new processes; new production techniques; new formulations; and new organisms, are disclosed. The present disclosure is also related to mutants named Av3 mutant polypeptides (AMPs) that are non-nat...